Verdict with Ted Cruz - Hindsight Is 2021

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00:00:04.500 What a long, strange year it has been.

00:00:07.240 An extension of another long, strange year,

00:00:09.260 which happened the year before.

00:00:10.260 Wonderful to be with all of you

00:00:11.560 in the Verdict community that whole time.

00:00:14.360 This is very casual.

00:00:15.720 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:16.900 This is Verdict with Ted Brude.

00:00:23.580 2021 has been strange, almost as strange as 2020.

00:00:27.360 There's been a lot of political developments.

00:00:28.820 These are in no particular order,

00:00:30.220 but this is a little list I compiled.

00:00:32.080 We began the year, of course,

00:00:33.020 with the Biden administration being inaugurated.

00:00:35.840 Then let's not forget President Trump was impeached again

00:00:38.760 at the beginning of the year.

00:00:39.960 In August, we had the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:00:43.460 That horrible 13 service members,

00:00:45.060 U.S. service members were killed.

00:00:46.520 We had infrastructure.

00:00:47.680 We had COVID from beginning to end.

00:00:50.860 We had the Dobbs case before the Supreme Court.

00:00:53.460 We had the Free Britney movement,

00:00:55.500 Free Britney Spears from her oppressive father.

00:00:59.320 We had, you know, this exodus from California,

00:01:01.600 Joe Rogan and Elon Musk,

00:01:02.880 and you guys at the Daily Wire,

00:01:04.360 you all left California.

00:01:06.260 We ended the year with Manchin saying no to build back better.

00:01:10.360 A lot of different things happened this year.

00:01:12.640 The most important one, I think,

00:01:13.920 I think we could all agree on this,

00:01:15.900 is Free Britney.

00:01:17.540 Senator, I know this was a very important issue for you,

00:01:20.940 and I'm not going to say that you single-handedly

00:01:23.640 got Britney Spears' custodianship removed,

00:01:27.420 but I'm not going to say you didn't either.

00:01:29.500 Well, I got to say,

00:01:30.700 this podcast helped lead the way on that,

00:01:33.380 and that's a real victory.

00:01:36.100 If you were predicting the impact of this pod two years ago,

00:01:41.420 as we were in a basement in D.C. at one in the morning,

00:01:45.500 helping free Britney Spears from her unjust confinement

00:01:50.300 would not have been on the top ten list,

00:01:53.200 but that was one of my favorite pods we've done

00:01:56.140 where we broke down the legal issues,

00:01:59.240 the rules, and what conservatorship is

00:02:02.800 and why it's abusive,

00:02:05.180 and I do think the points we made

00:02:09.020 contributed to efforts a lot of other people were making, too,

00:02:11.620 and we saw the court do the right thing

00:02:15.520 and say she's a grown woman

00:02:17.480 who has the right to make her own decisions 0.99

00:02:19.000 in her own life,

00:02:20.500 and that's, you know, on one level,

00:02:23.540 it's pop culture,

00:02:26.000 but on another level,

00:02:28.940 it's right at the heart of the issues

00:02:30.480 this podcast cares about,

00:02:32.000 which is our rights to liberty

00:02:35.860 protected under the Constitution,

00:02:37.580 and that's what it was about,

00:02:38.940 and so it was a nice intersection,

00:02:40.860 and I'm glad we made it through the entire thing

00:02:43.360 with neither you nor I

00:02:45.820 singing any Britney Spears songs.

00:02:48.420 Hit me, Senator, one more time.

00:02:50.120 This, Liz, this does bring up a question,

00:02:52.380 not just because you are a blonde lady, 1.00

00:02:55.440 but because what Britney was going through

00:02:57.680 seems a little familiar.

00:02:58.880 Do you ever feel like we've been in a

00:03:01.060 sort of custody ship for the past couple of years,

00:03:04.100 the Fauci guardianship

00:03:06.040 where we're not allowed to control our own lives?

00:03:08.260 Yes, that's why it's so fun.

00:03:10.040 I mean, the senator's correct.

00:03:11.300 It's so fun to see this crossover

00:03:12.540 between conservative policies and politics

00:03:14.340 and pop culture because, you know,

00:03:16.600 this idea of limited government,

00:03:17.820 this idea of individual liberty,

00:03:19.220 I mean, it's best for everybody.

00:03:20.380 It's not just best for old Republicans.

00:03:22.700 It's best for everybody in every situation,

00:03:25.080 and that certainly was true

00:03:26.140 in the case of Britney Spears.

00:03:28.040 Senator, let me ask you, though,

00:03:29.340 about your home state of Texas.

00:03:30.600 So your home state of Texas

00:03:31.480 invited some pretty powerful people

00:03:34.880 to leave California,

00:03:36.000 which they did.

00:03:37.480 Elon Musk, who was Time Magazine's

00:03:39.140 Person of the Year,

00:03:40.620 Joe Rogan, one of the biggest podcasts out there,

00:03:43.320 I don't want to say the biggest

00:03:44.200 because I know this podcast was number one,

00:03:46.280 moved to Texas

00:03:47.460 because of the draconian government policies

00:03:49.720 that were impeding their businesses.

00:03:51.860 Well, you know,

00:03:52.560 we are very glad to have them both in Texas,

00:03:55.900 although I will note that last year,

00:03:58.540 this podcast did beat Rogan

00:04:00.340 for the number one ranking

00:04:01.440 for an extended period of time,

00:04:04.740 so that we're not going to forget.

00:04:07.200 Michael was convinced

00:04:08.560 that, like, we'd hacked into the algorithm

00:04:10.980 to make that happen.

00:04:12.040 And we may have.

00:04:13.080 I don't know.

00:04:13.560 Look, with Elon,

00:04:14.540 I still remember when California

00:04:16.860 was getting more and more draconian with COVID,

00:04:20.560 and he was publicly contemplating moving,

00:04:25.400 and he had, if I remember right,

00:04:26.860 seven houses in California

00:04:28.520 that he'd put them all on the market.

00:04:31.080 And I called him,

00:04:32.760 spent about 45 minutes on the phone with him,

00:04:34.680 was actually out walking my dog,

00:04:36.040 was walking Snowflake with my AirPods in,

00:04:39.620 talking to Elon Musk and saying,

00:04:41.560 Elon, come to Texas.

00:04:43.700 We want you in Texas.

00:04:45.760 We like jobs.

00:04:46.860 We will protect your freedom.

00:04:48.640 We will protect your ability

00:04:49.860 to run your business.

00:04:51.180 We want you to come

00:04:52.100 and bring lots of high-paying jobs

00:04:53.860 and get away from the lunatics in California.

00:04:56.960 And I've got to say, 0.60

00:04:57.700 it was a very good conversation.

00:05:00.500 Elon was actually one of the first CEOs I met

00:05:03.620 when I was elected to the Senate in 2012.

00:05:07.100 Elon came to D.C.

00:05:09.640 and met with me in my basement office.

00:05:13.900 When you're newly elected,

00:05:14.840 they give you a temporary office that's down,

00:05:17.000 or maybe it was like early on,

00:05:19.500 you're in a little basement temporary office.

00:05:22.160 And he, you know, CEO of SpaceX.

00:05:25.000 And I have been the leading Republican on space

00:05:28.300 for many years.

00:05:29.160 And so we have worked very closely together

00:05:31.640 on those issues.

00:05:32.400 But we're glad to have Elon.

00:05:34.180 We're glad to have Rogan.

00:05:35.400 And we're glad to have lots of businesses coming.

00:05:39.500 I will say Texans are always nervous 1.00

00:05:41.700 about Californians coming.

00:05:44.100 If they're coming for the right reasons,

00:05:45.380 if they're coming to get away from high taxes

00:05:47.740 and high regulations and crazy leftists 0.87

00:05:50.160 running their lives, come to Texas. 0.93

00:05:52.860 But remember what it is you don't like

00:05:55.080 and don't vote for the same numbskulls 0.96

00:05:56.880 that screwed California up. 0.94

00:05:59.140 Protect our freedoms here.

00:06:00.580 And you are more than welcome in our state.

00:06:02.900 Right.

00:06:03.160 And we hope that's, I mean,

00:06:04.360 that is a pretty prevalent attitude in Texas

00:06:06.660 to point out Californians.

00:06:08.100 Hopefully they don't.

00:06:09.000 I mean, hopefully California is a lesson learned.

00:06:10.900 Both Michael and I can't claim to have left this year.

00:06:14.500 We left, we both left last year.

00:06:16.460 Senator, not to bring the mood down,

00:06:18.480 but the withdrawal from Afghanistan

00:06:20.800 at obviously the Biden administration

00:06:23.040 in charge of this.

00:06:24.240 I know we've briefly talked about impeachment,

00:06:26.280 but this is not just a botched withdrawal

00:06:28.500 in the sense that it was bad military policy

00:06:30.880 or caused us a loss.

00:06:31.940 This caused the death of 13 U.S. service members

00:06:35.020 and it shouldn't have.

00:06:36.680 They were well aware that it would be this dangerous.

00:06:38.580 They went ahead with the plan anyway.

00:06:41.540 Looking back several months later,

00:06:43.460 I mean, to me, it's shocking

00:06:44.860 that this dropped out of the news as quickly as it did.

00:06:49.500 Well, and that wasn't accidental.

00:06:52.060 That wasn't organic.

00:06:53.820 The corporate media is corrupt

00:06:56.980 and they're rabidly partisan.

00:06:59.060 And so as Americans were dying,

00:07:01.600 as the disaster was unfolding,

00:07:03.340 they had no choice but cover it

00:07:05.360 for at least a moment or two.

00:07:06.860 But they desperately wanted to change the subject.

00:07:09.540 And if you remember,

00:07:10.260 that's when Biden issued his illegal vaccine mandates

00:07:13.160 because they knew the media

00:07:14.980 would all happily cover the mandates

00:07:16.400 and suddenly ignore Afghanistan.

00:07:18.020 And so the people left behind,

00:07:19.840 they can't make the news.

00:07:21.900 The disaster that played out,

00:07:23.600 that doesn't make the news.

00:07:25.000 And, you know, amazingly,

00:07:27.580 the Biden White House just gaslights

00:07:29.700 the American people.

00:07:30.700 They say, oh, it was a tremendous success.

00:07:32.480 And the media doesn't hold him to account at all.

00:07:37.160 You know, I will say,

00:07:38.600 I actually think a much better job

00:07:40.680 of covering Afghanistan and foreign policy

00:07:42.780 is this podcast.

00:07:44.960 You know, just yesterday,

00:07:45.940 I was out in Phoenix

00:07:47.380 at the Turning Point USA

00:07:49.520 big national conference.

00:07:51.520 They had like 8,000 people there.

00:07:53.520 It was pretty phenomenal.

00:07:55.020 And I had a chance to address the crowd.

00:07:57.220 Big, energetic, excited crowd.

00:08:00.220 And afterwards, you know,

00:08:01.800 one fellow came up to me and said,

00:08:03.680 hey, thank you for bringing up foreign policy

00:08:07.480 and getting into foreign policy

00:08:09.040 and national security.

00:08:10.580 And, you know, particularly with young people,

00:08:12.900 because young people don't necessarily

00:08:14.580 hear a lot about the impact

00:08:17.840 of foreign policy and national security.

00:08:20.260 And, you know, I was reflecting with him.

00:08:22.020 I said, that's one of the things

00:08:24.220 we try to do on Verdict

00:08:25.680 is get into Afghanistan,

00:08:27.900 where we had podcasts

00:08:29.080 that did a deep dive on Afghanistan.

00:08:30.960 What were the mistakes?

00:08:31.920 What specifically caused the disaster?

00:08:35.040 Nord Stream 2, we've done deep dives.

00:08:36.940 Israel, we've done deep dives.

00:08:39.040 To try to walk China, we've done deep dives.

00:08:41.680 This was one of the first sources

00:08:43.160 that walked through

00:08:45.400 the overwhelming evidence

00:08:48.080 that COVID escaped

00:08:49.340 from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan.

00:08:52.280 And so foreign policy matters

00:08:55.020 and keeping Americans safe matter.

00:08:57.000 And I think this podcast,

00:08:58.680 frankly, does a much better job

00:09:01.120 covering the details and facts

00:09:02.680 and substance of it

00:09:03.720 than do any of the major networks.

00:09:07.340 Yeah, I mean, because we actually talk about it.

00:09:09.540 So maybe the bar isn't set too high

00:09:12.120 by the other networks.

00:09:13.280 But not to diminish the work we do here.

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00:09:41.000 Michael, something serious,

00:09:42.920 something that we ought

00:09:44.640 to talk about happened.

00:09:45.580 It was news from the White House

00:09:47.120 just this week.

00:09:48.260 Joe Biden got rid of his dog, Major.

00:09:50.220 Now, he said that he re-homed the dog

00:09:52.360 because the dog wasn't suitable

00:09:53.760 for the White House.

00:09:54.580 But I think we all know

00:09:55.640 the dog was biting

00:09:56.440 Secret Service agents

00:09:57.460 and other visitors

00:09:59.020 to the White House.

00:10:00.060 Not only did they get rid of the dog,

00:10:01.680 sent him to a farm, I guess.

00:10:02.800 I don't know.

00:10:03.740 They brought in a new puppy.

00:10:05.080 What do you make of this?

00:10:06.380 This is a great wedge issue.

00:10:08.440 You know, there aren't

00:10:08.900 that many wedge issues

00:10:09.840 where you can separate

00:10:10.900 your opponent

00:10:11.620 from their supporters.

00:10:13.140 And I think this would be

00:10:14.020 one of them

00:10:14.440 because PETA

00:10:15.500 and the animal activists

00:10:17.660 are up in arms

00:10:18.620 that Joe Biden

00:10:19.700 is not adopting

00:10:21.160 a mutt from the pound.

00:10:23.300 He's apparently getting

00:10:24.180 sort of higher-end dogs.

00:10:26.140 And so I think

00:10:27.020 this is a great opportunity

00:10:28.240 on a very, very important issue

00:10:30.160 and probably one of the few

00:10:31.900 national issues

00:10:32.760 that Joe Biden

00:10:33.500 is aware of these days.

00:10:35.440 I'm not sure that he knows

00:10:36.300 much of what's going on

00:10:37.160 in foreign policy

00:10:37.960 or in the economy

00:10:39.280 or the lockdowns,

00:10:40.740 but he does probably

00:10:41.800 see his dog.

00:10:42.720 And so I think

00:10:43.180 we've got to go pedal to the metal

00:10:44.540 and keep pushing

00:10:45.120 this very important issue.

00:10:46.240 And, Senator,

00:10:48.360 this might be a question

00:10:49.780 that was prompted

00:10:50.660 from the great

00:10:51.780 and powerful Jay Hay.

00:10:52.580 It might be a question

00:10:53.160 I invented.

00:10:53.860 I'm going to plead the fifth here

00:10:55.100 and not tell you.

00:10:55.920 Are we ever going to do

00:10:56.960 an episode on Bitcoin?

00:10:58.360 Absolutely.

00:10:59.120 No, no.

00:11:00.040 We're going to do

00:11:00.760 a deep dive

00:11:01.400 on Bitcoin and crypto

00:11:02.520 and that will be coming

00:11:04.980 in the new year.

00:11:06.460 Very important issue.

00:11:08.200 Let me go back

00:11:08.980 to the question

00:11:09.940 previously

00:11:11.360 on Major.

00:11:13.400 and I got to say

00:11:15.540 Snowflake and I

00:11:16.740 are both outraged.

00:11:18.160 We are pissed.

00:11:20.620 And, you know,

00:11:22.520 unlike Biden's

00:11:23.680 highfalutin dogs,

00:11:25.200 you know,

00:11:25.620 Snowflake is a rescue.

00:11:28.380 And I got to say,

00:11:30.440 this is a broader

00:11:31.120 morality play

00:11:32.040 that it reveals

00:11:34.700 that if you displease

00:11:36.520 your totalitarian

00:11:38.440 democratic masters, 0.99

00:11:40.360 they will get rid of you.

00:11:42.100 They will shop you

00:11:43.640 out to someone else.

00:11:44.920 They will send you

00:11:45.940 to the vet to get fixed

00:11:47.240 and then discard you

00:11:49.380 for somebody else

00:11:52.540 they have bred

00:11:53.560 specifically to satisfy

00:11:55.640 their desires.

00:11:56.700 And I'm slightly

00:11:58.140 tongue-in-cheek in that,

00:11:59.440 but in some ways

00:12:00.440 I'm not.

00:12:01.080 This got dark

00:12:01.760 really quick.

00:12:03.340 This is a very

00:12:04.620 important point.

00:12:05.360 You know,

00:12:05.520 people are always saying

00:12:06.400 that the Republicans 1.00

00:12:07.300 are the fat cats. 1.00

00:12:08.140 No way.

00:12:08.740 We're the party

00:12:09.360 of the working class.

00:12:10.320 We're the party

00:12:11.000 of ordinary Americans.

00:12:11.840 We're the party

00:12:12.760 of rescue dogs.

00:12:13.800 And those plutocrats 0.99

00:12:14.720 in the White House,

00:12:15.340 they're the ones

00:12:15.740 breeding their fancy shepherds.

00:12:17.500 Senator,

00:12:17.900 who named your dog Snowflake?

00:12:20.180 So our girls.

00:12:20.960 I've got two little girls

00:12:22.060 and our dog

00:12:22.680 is a white fluff ball.

00:12:25.300 And so Caroline

00:12:26.340 and Catherine

00:12:26.940 named him Snowflake.

00:12:28.000 We have three pets.

00:12:29.080 We have a dog

00:12:29.580 named Snowflake.

00:12:31.140 We have a cat

00:12:32.400 named Topsy

00:12:33.220 and we have

00:12:33.780 a little kitten

00:12:34.480 named Marmalade.

00:12:35.680 And the girls

00:12:36.100 have named all three.

00:12:37.740 Dad doesn't even

00:12:38.600 get a vote

00:12:39.060 in the names.

00:12:40.020 And, you know,

00:12:42.680 I will say

00:12:44.220 when it comes

00:12:45.320 to pets,

00:12:46.140 like,

00:12:47.800 it's a strange,

00:12:48.940 you know,

00:12:49.240 it reminds me

00:12:49.700 of the old joke

00:12:50.500 of the man

00:12:51.480 walking down

00:12:52.060 a country road

00:12:52.780 in France

00:12:53.680 and there's

00:12:54.160 an old French farmer

00:12:55.900 standing by the side

00:12:56.920 of the road

00:12:57.360 with a dog

00:12:58.600 and the man

00:12:59.860 walking says,

00:13:00.760 does your dog bite?

00:13:02.640 And the French farmer

00:13:03.420 goes, no,

00:13:04.520 he does not.

00:13:06.180 The guy reaches down

00:13:07.100 to pet the dog

00:13:07.760 and the dog bites him

00:13:08.780 and he's bleeding

00:13:09.540 and he looks at him

00:13:10.420 and he goes,

00:13:11.100 what's wrong with you?

00:13:12.800 You told me

00:13:13.280 your dog didn't bite.

00:13:14.440 And the farmer

00:13:14.880 looks at him

00:13:15.360 and goes,

00:13:16.260 that is not my dog.

00:13:21.720 So sorry.

00:13:22.840 Well,

00:13:23.160 the political crossover

00:13:24.700 between the name,

00:13:25.920 I know that maybe

00:13:26.540 it was a name

00:13:27.260 given the appearance

00:13:29.060 of the dog

00:13:29.760 being white and fluffy,

00:13:30.640 but the political

00:13:31.320 crossover, Snowflake,

00:13:32.580 I just, you know,

00:13:33.600 had to ask

00:13:34.300 on behalf of

00:13:35.140 the Cactus crew

00:13:36.340 if you had a hand

00:13:38.060 in that

00:13:38.380 or if you delegated

00:13:40.060 that to your daughters.

00:13:40.960 So we actually

00:13:41.860 named Snowflake

00:13:43.360 before Snowflake

00:13:44.960 became a thing,

00:13:45.880 before it was

00:13:46.500 a political term.

00:13:48.580 We got Snowflake,

00:13:51.160 oh, 2014,

00:13:54.300 2014 or 2015,

00:13:55.720 I think it was.

00:13:57.060 And so Snowflake

00:13:58.080 wasn't yet really

00:13:59.160 a term.

00:14:00.480 I think it was

00:14:01.120 later than that

00:14:01.820 that it became

00:14:02.560 like a buzzword

00:14:04.060 for these sensitive,

00:14:05.280 fragile lefties.

00:14:06.580 So when the girls 0.97

00:14:07.680 named him,

00:14:08.200 they just thought

00:14:08.740 it was a cute name

00:14:09.420 for a white furry dog.

00:14:10.680 The same thing

00:14:11.120 happened to me

00:14:11.680 with my goldfish 0.50

00:14:12.640 pansexual latinx. 0.74

00:14:14.620 We named her 0.72

00:14:15.240 years and years ago

00:14:16.300 and then now,

00:14:17.140 now it's become

00:14:18.260 a hot button issue.

00:14:19.360 I can't tell you

00:14:20.100 the story about

00:14:20.900 my goldfish

00:14:21.760 because I,

00:14:22.720 my parents got me

00:14:23.300 a goldfish

00:14:23.800 when I was,

00:14:24.480 what,

00:14:24.760 like three years old.

00:14:26.000 I named her Tiffany.

00:14:27.120 I have no idea why,

00:14:28.500 but she died

00:14:29.220 the day after I got her

00:14:30.220 because I had

00:14:30.760 fished her out

00:14:31.220 of the tank

00:14:31.660 to give her a hug

00:14:32.540 and,

00:14:33.380 you know,

00:14:33.560 she didn't have

00:14:34.140 the capacity

00:14:34.640 to receive my love.

00:14:36.040 So that was the end

00:14:36.860 of pet ownership

00:14:37.480 for me.

00:14:38.320 Well, 0.87

00:14:38.500 I hope you buried

00:14:39.780 her in a little

00:14:40.360 blue box.

00:14:42.980 We gave her

00:14:43.860 a sailor,

00:14:44.840 a sailor's funeral,

00:14:45.960 if you will.

00:14:47.320 A good old blush.

00:14:50.660 Michael,

00:14:51.160 I would be remiss

00:14:51.920 if I don't ask you

00:14:52.720 about the biggest event

00:14:53.580 that happened

00:14:54.080 in your year

00:14:55.720 in 2021.

00:14:56.620 I mean,

00:14:56.800 this is a life-changing

00:14:57.860 event when you,

00:14:59.400 you know,

00:15:00.060 you go from

00:15:00.720 just being married

00:15:01.780 to,

00:15:02.560 you know,

00:15:03.660 starting a family

00:15:04.560 and now you're

00:15:05.420 a Bitcoin millionaire.

00:15:06.500 Tell us about that.

00:15:07.520 That's true.

00:15:08.840 That was probably

00:15:09.780 the most important step,

00:15:10.960 except the problem

00:15:11.660 is this.

00:15:12.940 I'm no longer

00:15:13.760 a billionaire.

00:15:14.560 I was really excited

00:15:15.660 because for a brief

00:15:17.980 moment on Coinbase,

00:15:19.780 I had invested

00:15:20.520 a very small amount

00:15:21.460 of money.

00:15:21.740 I don't know anything

00:15:22.340 in crypto.

00:15:22.880 I guess we'll get

00:15:23.280 into it in a later episode.

00:15:24.620 I invested a really

00:15:25.680 tiny,

00:15:26.120 just kind of a gamble.

00:15:27.100 And then I looked

00:15:28.380 at my Coinbase

00:15:29.240 and it said it was

00:15:29.960 worth $7.7 billion.

00:15:32.620 So I had penned

00:15:34.060 these obnoxious,

00:15:35.540 furious resignation letters.

00:15:37.380 I was going to send

00:15:37.880 them to Jeremy Boring,

00:15:39.060 Ben Shapiro,

00:15:40.000 Senator Cruz.

00:15:40.800 I was just going to

00:15:41.720 go off into the sunset

00:15:42.700 on my yacht

00:15:43.720 and then I tried

00:15:44.520 to cash it out

00:15:45.160 and it was only

00:15:45.560 worth 48 bucks.

00:15:46.940 So I'm back at work.

00:15:49.060 That's good.

00:15:50.180 My kid is not going

00:15:51.660 to be able to have

00:15:52.280 his own island somewhere.

00:15:53.500 He's probably going

00:15:54.080 to have to work as well,

00:15:55.460 which I guess is probably

00:15:56.420 good for our souls

00:15:57.280 in the long run.

00:15:58.500 Well, wishing everybody

00:15:59.380 lots and lots of fortune

00:16:00.720 in the new year.

00:16:02.500 Maybe that means

00:16:03.440 $7 billion of Bitcoin.

00:16:05.440 Maybe that means

00:16:06.100 a new family.

00:16:06.720 Maybe that means

00:16:07.160 some big political wins

00:16:08.180 that we're seeing

00:16:08.680 at the Capitol,

00:16:09.920 many of which are being

00:16:10.700 pushed by the host

00:16:11.820 of this show.

00:16:12.320 So thank you very much

00:16:13.040 on behalf of Liz

00:16:14.200 and Senator Cruz.

00:16:15.380 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:17:51.020 and Senator Cruz

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